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Administration recommends prioritizing police-station renovation over building a new city hall
Summary
The administration told the Committee of the Whole it will not pursue constructing a new city hall this year and instead proposes renovating the existing police station using a council bond repaid in part with public-safety sales tax revenue; council members asked for detailed cost breakdowns and low/medium/high options before committing.
Autumn Monahan, the city’s administrative services director, recommended that the city pause plans to build a new city hall and instead use a council bond and public-safety sales-tax proceeds to fund a multi-year renovation of the existing police station. “Administration is proposing that we do not pursue construction of a new city hall and that to pay for the remodel of our police station that we leverage a councilmatic bond and pay for that debt service using some proceeds from the public safety sales tax,” Monahan said.
Monahan told the council that outside estimates for police renovations range from $15 million to $26 million and that a midpoint financing example would be roughly $21 million supported by about $1.5 million a year in debt service on a 20-year bond; she emphasized the numbers are…
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